Parolee charged in gas station killing

Security guard was fatally stabbed and shot on West Side

A man out of prison three months was charged with shooting and stabbing to death a security guard while trying to rob a gas station on the West Side, Chicago police said.

Kaz Link, 33, was charged Sunday with one count of first-degree murder in the death of Dennis Fox, 53, who was stabbed and shot Saturday at the station at 415 S. Pulaski Road.

Fox's father, Elbert, 84, said his son was attacked after trying to call police. A man had been hanging around the gas station about half an hour, talking on his cellphone. When Fox tried to call police, the man attacked him, according to Elbert Fox, who said he watched security footage of the attack.

The man then fled the station but came back apparently because he had left his cellphone, Elbert Fox said.

Dennis Fox lived his whole life on the West Side and had worked as a security guard for about 15 years, the last five at the gas station, his father said. Among the younger of 10 brothers and sisters, Fox enjoyed music and fixing things, Elbert Fox said.

Link, of the 4300 block of West Jackson Boulevard, has a string of drug and theft convictions dating to 1997. In 2008, he was sentenced to six years in prison for the unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle. He was paroled in July.